Ask women age 12 or older who are married, widowed or divorced.
[Questions 31 - 33 were asked of women age 12 or older who are married, widowed, or divorced.]

32. How many children (female or male) have you ever given birth?

Questions 31, 32, and 33 are to be asked of women age 12 or older, replying to question 30 with the answer that they were married, that their husband had died, or that they were divorced.

The number of girls or boys that this woman has given birth to, whether they are living at this moment or not, or whether they are living at home or not, is to be entered in numeric form into the boxes pertaining to the number of live births of boys and girls, doing so separately for and distinguishing between males and females. In situations where only sons or daughters were born, a "0" is to be entered either into the female or male box, depending on whichever of these there are no children of.

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Even if the children born to the woman to whom the Census is administered died after birth or survived and were living in a house other than that in which the census was being conducted, these children are to be included in the number of born children.